Theme 1 (All Together Now)

Launching the Theme:

United Streaming:

¯The
Little Red Hen

Selection 1: I Am Six

United Streaming:

¯Going
to School is Your Job (clips on Communities Working Together, Rules of the School,
Responsibility)

Starfall: Bookmark this site as a resource for students to
use throughout the year during Universal Access time.Depending upon individual needs, students can practice the
ABCs, try phonics activities or read and listen to decodable books that
correspond to the letter combinations that have been introduced in the Houghton
Mifflin Decodable Texts, or read e-books designed for beginning readers.

¯Fantasy
(clip on Fantasy: Where Unreal Things That CouldnÕt Happen Happen All the Time)

Cracker Jacks: The About Cracker Jack link on the official
Cracker Jack home page can provide background for teachers about the ÔsurpriseÕ
found in every box.Click on Games
and Prizes and take a look at MarkÕs Micro Magic Illusions to see three
surprising illusions.

Starfall: Bookmark this site as a resource for students to
use throughout the year during Universal Access time.Depending upon individual needs, students can practice the
ABCs, try phonics activities or read and listen to decodable books that
correspond to the letter combinations that have been introduced in the Houghton
Mifflin Decodable Texts, or read e-books designed for beginning readers.

Selection 2: Minerva Louise at School

¯Humor
(clip on Techniques for Humor Writing: Exaggeration and Surprise)

Selection 3: JasperÕs Beanstalk

United Streaming:

¯Humorous
Verse (clips on Humorous Verse: Surprises and Unexpected Endings, Nonsense
Words and Fractured Words, Drumming Up Ideas for Humorous Verse, Listening to
Sound Patterns and Playing with Rhythm)

PBS: DragonFlyTV: Science Surprises: Site has descriptions
of easy-to-do surprising activities for kids.Provides background for teachers and describes possible
activities to share with the class that are related to the concept of surprise,
if time permits.

The Garden:Click on the garden shed to enter the site.Share various parts of the site each week with the class
(see below).To launch the theme,
you might want to show the Minibeast or Bird Spotting section of the site to
the class.

Science Clips: Plants and Animals in the Local Environment:
Activity can be made full screen by clicking on the Full Screen button.Students have to Ōlook aroundĶ the
picture and find the living things, both plants and animals.They Ōtake picturesĶ of the living
things and can then get information about the animals and plants, which can be
narrated by clicking on the speaker icon.

¯Magical
Mother Nature: The Four Seasons (clips on Thinking About the Seasons, Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter)

The Garden:Click on the garden shed to enter the site.Select The Wood link to show the class the various critters
that live in the woods.There is a
very nice printable page that could be added to the Focus Wall.Use the hyperlinks off this page when
at the computer and show students pictures and read the information about the
various animals that are also mentioned in the reading selection.

The Seasons: Activities at Enchanted Learning:Diagrams, printouts, and information
about the seasons from Enchanted Learning.Some printouts can be labeled and added to the Focus
Wall.Some printouts are available
only to site members, but most are available to anyone.

Plants: This page from Enchanted Learning has links to
diagrams and information about plants.Some pages can be printed and some can be labeled and added to the Focus
Wall.Some printable pages are
only available to site members, but many pages are available to anyone.

¯Junior
Oceanographer: Life in the Sea (clips on The Abundance of Sea Life, Whales,
What Are Some Special Ocean Adaptations?, Life in the Ocean)

Oceans and Seas at Enchanted Learning: Diagrams, information
and printouts about fish and ocean life that can be assembled into books or
added to the Focus Wall.Some
printouts are available to site members only, but most are available to anyone.

¯What
is a Family? (clips on Families are Different, Two Kinds of Families, Family Fun)

My Brother is a Robot: Narrated, animated e-book about a new
little brother in the family.Requires Flash.Students
can listen to the story as they read the text.Click the arrows to move to the next page.

Pet Care Đ Dog: Fun and Games: Information about Fun and
Games with dogs that teachers can paraphrase and share with children.Click on the Cartoon: Teaching Your Dog
to Sit link and show a short animation about the right way to train dogs to do
tricks.

Animal Printouts: Use this site from Enchanted Learning to
prepare for the unit.Animal
printouts may be labeled and added to the Focus Wall and information about the
animals mentioned in the reading selections may be shared with students.

Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along:Site provides narrated text and
pictures with strategies for getting along so that children are more apt to be
able to solve problems that they might have with others and know better
strategies for getting along.

¯I
Had It First! Learning to Share (clips on Sharing is a Way to Resolve Some
Conflicts, A Sharing Story)

Selection 2: The Crow and the Pitcher, Lost!

Safe, Smart, Survival!: Page for kids from Texas Parks and
Wildlife about strategies for handling a difficult situation É getting
lost.This site will provide
background and information for teachers that they can share when the class
reads Lost.

Solid Waste and Recycling:Site will provide background for
teachers about garbage and recycling.Share the Put Waste in Its Place page with students (page may be printed
and added to Focus Wall) and the class can try the Disposal Quiz together.

Freedomknot:The Freedomknot site shows a
step-by-step Flash demonstration of how to tie a shoe. Click on Enter and then
click on Menu.Click the Ōlearn 2
tie your shoeĶ link in the top navigation bar.Teachers can share the site with the class as they talk
about things students have learned to do recently.